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Kannada grammar
The grammar of Kannada is complex and differs greatly from that of the Indo-European languages. As a Dravidian language, Kannada bears many differences as compared to English and Sanskrit, the latter of which is considered the archetype for the Indian grammatical model.
- 1 Nouns (ನಾಮಪದಗಳು)
- 1.1 Gender (ಲಿಂಗ)
- 1.2 Case (ವಿಭಕ್ತಿ)
- 1.3 Number (ವಚನ)
- 1.4 Declension (ವಿಭಕ್ತಿಪರಿಣಾಮ)
- 2 Modifiers (ಪರಿವರ್ತಕಗಳು)
- 3 Verbs (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳು)
- 3.1 Sandhi with verb inflection (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳ ರೂಪನಿಷ್ಪತ್ತಿಯ ಸಂಧಿ)
- 3.2 Finite verb forms (ಆಖ್ಯಾತರೂಪಗಳು)
- 3.3 Non-finite verb forms (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳ ಅವ್ಯಯರೂಪಗಳು)
- 3.4 Inflecting verbs for non-finite forms (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳ ಅವ್ಯಯರೂಪಗಳಿಗೆ ರೂಪನಿಷ್ಪತ್ತಿ)
- 3.5 Inflecting verbs for finite forms / Conjugation (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳ ಆಖ್ಯಾತರೂಪಗಳಿಗೆ ರೂಪನಿಷ್ಪತ್ತಿ / ಆಖ್ಯಾತಮಾರ್ಗ)
- 4 Syntax (ವಾಕ್ಯವಿನ್ಯಾಸ)
- 4.1 Word order (ಪದವಿನ್ಯಾಸ)
- 4.2 Sentence constituents (ವಾಕ್ಯದ ಭಾಗಗಳು)
- 4.3 Interrogation (ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸುವುದು)
- 4.4 Negation (ನಿಷೇಧ)
- 5 References
Nouns (ನಾಮಪದಗಳು)[edit]
Gender (ಲಿಂಗ)[edit]
All Kannada nouns have gender.[1] Unlike most languages, natural gender in Kannada corresponds with grammatical gender. The natural gender of all things that noun denote is the grammatical gender of those nouns. However, certain things that have been personified into deities, such as sūrya, meaning 'the sun', belong to the gender of the deity. Because the Hindu sun deity is a god (as opposed to goddess), 'sūrya' is a masculine noun.[1]
- masculine gender (ಪುಲ್ಲಿಂಗ)
- Examples: arasa ('king'), dore ('master, lord'), vāyu ('wind')
- feminine gender (ಸ್ತ್ರೀಲಿಂಗ)
- neuter gender (ನಪುಂಸಕಲಿಂಗ)
Nouns that do not belong to either of the above two classes are considered to have neuter gender.
Case (ವಿಭಕ್ತಿ)[edit]
Kannada has seven cases:[2]
- accusative case (ಕರ್ಮವಿಭಕ್ತಿ)
- instrumental-ablative case (ಕರಣವಿಭಕ್ತಿ)
- dative case (ಸಂಪ್ರದಾನವಿಭಕ್ತಿ)
- genitive case (ಸಂಭಂದವಿಭಕ್ತಿ)
- locative case (ಅಧಿಕರಣವಿಭಕ್ತಿ)
- vocative case (ಸಂಬೋಧನಾವಿಭಕ್ತಿ)
Because the traditional study of Kannada grammar is based on Sanskrit grammar, a fifth case (since the dative case is the fourth case and the genitive case is the sixth in the traditional order of the cases) is sometimes considered: the ablative case (ಅಪಾದಾನವಿಭಕ್ತಿ). This case is formed periphrastically by combining the genitive case of the noun supposedly in the ablative with the instrumental-case form of the noun 'ದೆಸೆ', meaning 'cause, vicinity, place, point'. Thus the Kannada ablative literally translates to 'from/by the cause/point of the {noun}'. However, this 'ablative' form is not commonly used colloquially, and exists only for propriety—it is not a true case, serving only to provide a parallel to the Sanskrit ablative.[3] In its place, the third case, the instrumental-ablative case, is normally used.
- Example: Maradiṁda allige hōdenu. (literally: 'From the tree to there I went.'; idiomatically: 'I went there from the tree.')
Of course, Marada deseyiṁda allige hōdenu. would also be correct. Note that the nominative-case and accusative-case forms of a noun are often in the colloquial dialect substituted by the crude base.
Number (ವಚನ)[edit]
There are, as in English, two grammatical numbers: the singular number (ಏಕವಚನ) and the plural number (ಬಹುವಚನ).[4] In declension, the plural form of a masculine or feminine noun is made by suffixing 'ಅರ್' to the crude base, and then the case-termination, and the plural form of a neuter noun is made by suffixing 'ಗಳ್' to the crude base, and then the case-termination. However, nouns of relationship, such as 'mother', 'great-grandfather', 'son-in-law', and 'younger brother', which are always masculine or feminine, have the plural number marker "ಅಂದಿರ್'.[1]
Declension (ವಿಭಕ್ತಿಪರಿಣಾಮ)[edit]
Kannada has four declensions, or groups of case-terminations.[1] The first declension includes all masculine and feminine nouns that end in 'ಅ'; the second declension includes all neuter nouns that end in 'ಅ'; the third declension includes all nouns of all genders that end in 'ಇ', 'ಈ', 'ಎ', 'ಏ', or 'ಐ'; the fourth declension includes all nouns of all genders that end in 'ಉ', ಊ', 'ಋ', 'ೠ', 'ಓ', or 'ಔ'.[5] Below are the 'standard' case-terminations, which are suffixed to the plural number markers to create the full case-termination in the plural. However, in the singular number, all the declensions use variations of the 'standard' case-terminations as the final case-terminations.
|'Standard' Case-termination
|nominative case
|accusative case
|instrumental case
|dative case
|genitive case
|locative case
|vocative case
Declensional sandhi (ವಿಭಕ್ತಿಪರಿಣಾಮದ ಸಂಧಿ)[edit]
Sandhi is the mutation of the final or initial letters of a word for euphony. Sandhi occurs very often in declension.
In the first declension and in the second declension, the only sandhi that occurs is the elision (dropping) of the final 'ಅ' ('atva') before a plural marker or case-termination that begins with a vowel.
In the third declension, a euphonic 'ಯ್' ('yatva') must be inserted after the noun before a plural marker or case-termination that begins with a vowel.[1][4]
In the fourth declension, a euphonic 'ವ್' ('vatva') must be inserted after the noun before a plural marker or case-termination that begins with a vowel. However, when a Kannada noun ends in a 'ಉ' that was already added for euphony at some original stage, that final vowel is eliminated when the noun is followed by a plural marker or case-termination that begins with a vowel.[5] For example, the Kannada word for 'table' is 'ಮೇಜು', from the Persian 'mez'. In transference, the final 'z' of 'mez' became a 'j', since Kannada has no letter to represent the 'z' sound. However, 'ಮೇಜ್' does not sound good in Kannada—so a euphonic 'ಉ' was added to the crude base of the word. However, because technically the true base has no final vowel (although the base still takes the fourth declension endings), that euphonic 'ಉ' of 'ಮೇಜು' is elided during declension. These words that already have a euphonic 'ಉ' that is elided during declension attached to their end must be learned, but most native Kannada, or originally Kannada, words have this 'euphonic "ಉ" ' on their end, because not many Kannada words originally ended in 'ಉ'.[6]
First declension (ನಾಮಪ್ರತ್ಯಯಗಳ ಮೋದಲನೇ ವರ್ಗ)[edit]
|nominative case
|accusative case
|instrumental case
|dative case
|genitive case
|locative case
|vocative case
Second declension (ನಾಮಪ್ರತ್ಯಯಗಳ ಎರಡನೇ ವರ್ಗ)[edit]
|nominative case
|accusative case
|instrumental case
|dative case
|genitive case
|locative case
|vocative case
Third declension (ನಾಮಪ್ರತ್ಯಯಗಳ ಮೂರನೇ ವರ್ಗ)[edit]
|nominative case
|accusative case
|instrumental case
|dative case
|genitive case
|locative case
|vocative case
Fourth declension (ನಾಮಪ್ರತ್ಯಯಗಳ ನಾಲ್ಕನೇ ವರ್ಗ)[edit]
|nominative case
|accusative case
|instrumental case
|dative case
|genitive case
|locative case
|vocative case
Note that for the instrumental case, the genitive case, and the locative case, the case-termination first given is generally preferred.
Modifiers (ಪರಿವರ್ತಕಗಳು)[edit]
Kannada, as does English, uses adjectives and adverbs as modifiers. Kannada does not have articles. However, the adjectives 'ಆ' ('that') and 'ಒಂದು' ('one') can be used as the definite and the indefinite article, respectively.[1]
Kannada possess few adjectives that are not derived from some noun. Adjectivalizing suffixes include 'ಆದ' (literally: 'which/that became') and 'ಇಕ'.
Example: suṁdaravāda heṁgasu ('a beautiful woman'), itihāsika dina ('a historic day')
Kannada lacks true predicate adjectives. To use an adjective predicatively, suffix the third-person pronoun to the end of the adjective that matches the subject.[4]
Example: Ā heṁgasu suṁdaravādavaļu. ('That woman (is) beautiful.')
Adverbs are formed by the suffix 'ಆಗಿ'.[1][4][5] Adverbs can be added to adjectives or to nouns,[1] unlike in English, where '-ly' can only be suffixed to adjectives.
- Example: suṁdaravāgi ('beautifully', from 'suṁdara' ["beauty"] + 'ಆಗಿ')
Verbs (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳು)[edit]
Sandhi with verb inflection (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳ ರೂಪನಿಷ್ಪತ್ತಿಯ ಸಂಧಿ)[edit]
Sandhi is the mutation of the final or initial letters of a word for euphony. Sandhi with verbs applies in any case when the form of a verb is being changed.
When any verb form (ಕ್ರಿಯಾರೂಪ) ends with the vowel 'ಅ' ('atva') or with the vowel 'ಉ' ('utva'), eliminate that final vowel if a suffix that begins with a vowel follows.[1]
ಬರು (crude verb form; 'come') → ಬರ್ + ಅಲಿ (third person singular imperative suffix) = ಬರಲಿ
When the crude form/root of the verb (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪಕೃತಿ) ends with the vowel 'ಇ' ('itva') or with the vowel 'ಎ' ('etva') or with the vowel 'ಆ' ('ātva'), insert a euphonic 'ಯ್' ('yatva') after the form if a suffix that begins with a vowel follows.[1]
ಬರೆ (crude verb form; 'write') → ಬರೆಯ್ + ಅಲ್ (infinitive form suffix) + ಪಟ್ಟಿತು (past passive third person singular neuter suffix) = ಬರೆಯಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿತು (past passive third person neuter form of 'ಬರೆ'; 'it was written')
When any other form of the verb ends with the vowel 'ಇ' ('itva') or with the vowel 'ಎ' ('etva'), eliminate that final vowel if a suffix that begins with a vowel follows.[1] No other verb form other than the crude form/root of a verb will end in 'ಆ'.
ಮಾಡು (crude verb form; 'make') → ಮಾಡಿ (past adverbial participle; 'having made') + ಇತು (past active third person singular imperative suffix) = ಮಾಡಿತು
Finite verb forms (ಆಖ್ಯಾತರೂಪಗಳು)[edit]
Kannada verbs have several forms: an affirmative form (ನಿಶ್ಚಯರೂಪ), a contingent-future, or potential, form (ಸಂಭಾವರೂಪ), an imperative form (ವಿಧಿರೂಪ), and a negative form (ನಿಷೇಧರೂಪ).[7] The action of a verb in the affirmative form does happen, but the action of a verb in the negative form does not happen. The contingent-future form expresses the idea of the possibility of an action's occurrence at the present or in the future; the imperative form commands, exhorts, or optates.
As in English, the three tenses (ಕಾಲಗಳು) include the present tense (ವರ್ತಮಾನಕಾಲ), the past tense (ಭೂತಕಾಲ), and the future tense (ಭವಿಷ್ಯತ್ತುಕಾಲ). However, distinct forms for each of these tenses exist only in the affirmative form.[1] The imperative form, as in English lacks tense, and because of the meaning of the contingent-future form, it also lacks tense distinctions. The negative form is peculiar, for its forms can possess a present-tense, past-tense, or future-tense meaning, to be inferred from context; in the modern dialect, other modes of negation are employed.
There are two grammatical aspects (ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗಳು) of verbs—the perfect aspect (ಪೂರ್ಣವಾಚಕ ಸ್ಥಿತಿ), in which the action has already occurred at the time expressed by the tense of the verb, and the progressive aspect (ಗತಿಸೂಚಕ ಸ್ಥಿತಿ), in which the action is ongoing at the time expressed by the tense of the verb.[1][5]
The expression of voice (ಪ್ರಯೋಗ) in Kannada is quite different than in English, but the same two voices exist in both languages—the active voice (ಕರ್ತರೀ ಪ್ರಯೋಗ) and the passive voice (ಕರ್ಮಣಿ ಪ್ರಯೋಗ).[7]
Finite Kannada verbs are conjugated for all these properties as well as three properties of the subject: person (ಪುರುಷ), number (ವಚನ), and gender (ಲಿಂಗ).[1][5] There are three persons in Kannada as in English—the first person (ಉತ್ತಮ ಪುರುಷ), the second person (ಮಧ್ಯಮ ಪುರುಷ), and the third person (ಪ್ರಥಮ ಪುರುಷ)—as well as a singular number (ಏಕವಚನ) and a plural number (ಬಹುವಚನ). Whether a noun is of the masculine gender (ಪುಲ್ಲಿಂಗ), of the feminine gender (ಸ್ತ್ರೀಲಿಂಗ), or of the neuter gender (ನಪುಂಸಕಲಿಂಗ) is decided semantically. All nouns denoting male entities, including entities personified—for example, religiously—as male entities, are masculine, and all feminine nouns denote female entities or femalely personified entities; the remaining nouns fall into the neuter gender.[1][4]
Non-finite verb forms (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳ ಅವ್ಯಯರೂಪಗಳು)[edit]
The first non-finite verb form is the infinitive form (ಭಾವರೂಪ). There are three infinitives, which vary in their uses and their endings. Other than the infinitive, Kannada has two types of participle—an adjectival participle (ಕೃದ್ವಾಚಿ) and an adverbial participle (ಕ್ರಿಯಾನ್ಯೂನ). While the present participle of English can function both adjectivally and adverbially, and the past participle can function only adjectivally, Kannada participles' functions are quite consistent. The Kannada adjectival participle is peculiar, for it takes the place of the relative pronoun that introduces a restrictive relative clause, the verb of the relative clause, and if the relative pronoun is a prepositional complement, of the governing preposition. There is a present-future adjectival participle, as well as a past adjectival participle. The adverbial participle has a present-tense form and a past-tense form, and modifies the verb of the sentence. The adverbial participle may accept its own nominative, as may the adjectival participle in its clause. Kannada does not have a gerund, but nouns that express the same idea can be formed by suffixing the third-person neuter pronoun to the present adjectival participle.
Inflecting verbs for non-finite forms (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳ ಅವ್ಯಯರೂಪಗಳಿಗೆ ರೂಪನಿಷ್ಪತ್ತಿ)[edit]
Present adverbial participle (ವರ್ತಮಾನಕಾಲದ ಕ್ರಿಯಾನ್ಯೂನ)[edit]
To form the present adverbial participle of a verb, add the suffix 'ಉತ್ತ' to the crude form of the verb.[1][5][7] There are no exceptions in the modern dialect, but occasionally the forms 'ಉತ' or 'ಉತ್ತಾ' may appear.[1][5]
ಮಾಡು ("do, make") → ಮಾಡುತ್ತ ("doing, making")
ಬರೆ ("write") → ಬರೆಯುತ್ತ ("writing")
Past adverbial participle (ಭೂತಕಾಲದ ಕ್ರಿಯಾನ್ಯೂನ)[edit]
To form the past adverbial participle of a verb that ends in "ಉ," add the suffix "ಇ" to the crude form of the verb.[1] To form the past adverbial participle of a verb that ends in any vowel but "ಉ," add the suffix "ದು" to the crude form of the verb.[1][5]
ಮಾಡು ("do, make") → ಮಾಡಿ ("having done, having made")
ಬರೆ ("write") → ಬರೆದು ("having written")
There are many oddly formed past adverbial participles, some of them irregular, and some of them following old formations, and others changed for euphony. They are listed below:
For these verbs, or any modern forms of them:[1][5]
- ಕವಲು
- ಮಡಲು
- ಬಲಿ
- ಕಲಿ
- ಹೋಲು
- ಸಾಲು
- ಸೋಲು
- ಹೇಲು
- ನೂಲು
- ಕೂರಿ
- ಕೊನರು
- ತಳಿರು
- ಚಿಗುರು
- ಬೆವರು
- ಅಳು
- ಉಳು
- ಕೀಳು
- ಚಳಿ
- ಮೊಳೆ
- ಅರಿ
- ಕುರಿ
- ಬಾ
- ಕೀ
suffix "ತು."
Certain final consonants are replaced with other consonants before the "ದು" or the "ತು" of the past participle.[5] Before 'ದು': ಲ್ → ದ್; ಳ್ → ದ್. Before "ತು": ಱ್ → ತ್; ಱು (in which the final "ಉ" was originally euphonic, as with the euphonic "ಉ" for nouns) → ತ್
The following verbs' past participles can be formed regularly, but there is also another, irregular form of those verbs:[5] ಆಗು → ಆಯ್; ಪೋಗು → ಪೋಯ್; ಹೋಗು → ಹೋಯ್
Present-future adjectival participle (ವರ್ತಮಾನಕಾಲದ ಮತ್ತು ಭವಿಷ್ಯತ್ತುಕಾಲದ ಕೃದ್ವಾಚಿ)[edit]
To form the present-future adjectival participle, add the suffix "ಉವ" to the crude form of the verb. There are not irregulars for this form in the modern dialect.
ಮಾಡು ("do, make) → ಮಾಡುವ ("who/which/that does, who/which/that makes")
ಬರೆ ("write") → ಬರೆಯುವ ("who/which/that writes")
Past adjectival participle (ಭೂತಕಾಲದ ಕೃದ್ವಾಚಿ)[edit]
The past adjectival participle of the verb is formed from the past adverbial participle. If the past adverbial participle of a verb ends in 'ಉ', add 'ಅ' to the end of the past adverbial participle to form the past adjectival participle.[1] If the past adverbial participle of a verb ends in 'ಇ', add 'ದ' to the end of the past adverbial participle.[1]
ಮಾಡು ("do, make) → ಮಾಡಿದ ("who/which/that does, who/which/that made")
ಬರೆ ("write") → ಬರೆದ ("who/which/that wrote")
Irregular past adjectival participles include: 'ಆದ', from crude verb root 'ಆಗು'; 'ಪೋದ', from crude verb root 'ಪೋಗು'; and 'ಹೋದ', from crude verb root 'ಹೋಗು'.[5]
Inflecting verbs for finite forms / Conjugation (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳ ಆಖ್ಯಾತರೂಪಗಳಿಗೆ ರೂಪನಿಷ್ಪತ್ತಿ / ಆಖ್ಯಾತಮಾರ್ಗ)[edit]
Affirmative form (ನಿಶ್ಚಯರೂಪ)[edit]
To conjugate verbs in their present-tense affirmative form, attach the following suffixes to the present adverbial participle.
|singular number
|plural number
|first person
|second person
|third person masculine
|third person feminine
|third person neuter
To conjugate verbs in their past-tense affirmative form, attach the following suffixes to the past adjectival participle, except for the third person neuter singular suffix, which is attached to the past adverbial participle.
|singular number
|plural number
|first person
|second person
|third person masculine
|third person feminine
|third person neuter
To conjugate verbs in their future-tense affirmative form, attach the following suffixes to the present-future adjectival participle.
|singular number
|plural number
|first person
|second person
|third person masculine
|third person feminine
|third person neuter
Negative form (ನಿಷೇಧರೂಪ)[edit]
The negative form of the verb does not have any tense. Tense must be told from context. However, more commonly used to negate a verb is the negative word 'ಇಲ್ಲ'.
Suffix these terminations (which are the same as the future tense's suffixes) to the verbal infinitive that ends in "ಅ" for the tenseless negative form:
|singular number
|plural number
|first person
|second person
|third person masculine
|third person feminine
|third person neuter
The negative form has only the irregular formation that 'ಇಲ್ಲ' may be alternatively used in place of the regular negative forms of 'ಇರು'.
Contingent-future form (ಸಂಭಾವರೂಪ)[edit]
The contingent-future form expresses the idea that the action of a verb may perhaps occur in the future. For example, 'ಮಾಡಿಯೇನು', which is conjugated in the contingent-future form, may be translated as 'I might do (it)'.
These are the suffixes for the contingent-future form, suffixed to the past adverbial participle:
|singular number
|plural number
|first person
|second person
|third person masculine
|third person feminine
|third person neuter
The contingent-future form does not have irregular formations.
Imperative form (ವಿಧಿರೂಪ)[edit]
The imperative form of the verb optates, exhorts, or commands. For example, the first-person and the third-person imperative expresses the idea of 'may/let {I/we/he/she/it/they} ___'. However, the second-person imperative either is used either to command ('Do something!') or with an optative or jussive sense ('may you ___'), depending on the verb's meaning and the context.
These suffixes are attached to the root of the verb:
|singular number
|plural number
|first person
|second person
|third person masculine
|third person feminine
|third person neuter
Below are the irregular imperative forms:[5][6]
- second-person plural imperative 'ಇರಿ', from crude verb root 'ಇರು'
- second-person singular imperative 'ಕೋ', from crude verb root 'ಕೊಳ್ಳು'
- second-person singular imperative 'ಬೋ', from crude verb root 'ಬೋಲು'
- second-person plural imperative 'ತರಿ', from crude verb root 'ತರು'
- second-person singular imperative 'ತಾ', from crude verb root 'ತರು'
- second-person plural imperative 'ಬನ್ನಿರಿ', from crude verb root 'ಬರು'
- second-person singular imperative 'ಬಾ', from crude verb root 'ಬಾ'
Syntax (ವಾಕ್ಯವಿನ್ಯಾಸ)[edit]
Word order (ಪದವಿನ್ಯಾಸ)[edit]
Kannada word order is 'S-O-V', or 'subject-object-verb', as opposed to English, which is a 'S-V-O', or 'subject-verb-object' language. However, in Kannada, due to its highly inflected nature, a sentence's word order may be freely changed for style or emphasis.
Sentence constituents (ವಾಕ್ಯದ ಭಾಗಗಳು)[edit]
Kannada sentences have two basic parts: the subject and the predicate. The subject consists of the central topic of the sentence, declined to the nominative case, while the predicate consists of a verb, often with an object (which formally should be in the accusative case), or may have no verb and object at all but rather simply have another noun declined in the nominative case, known as the predicate nominative, where an equivalency statement is intended.
Example: ನಾನು (subject) ಮೇಜನ್ನು (object) ಕಟ್ಟಿದೆನು (verb). ('I built the table.' Here, the subject is 'I' and 'built the table' is the predicate, with 'built' as the verb and 'the table' as the object.
Example: ನಾನು (subject) ಕನ್ನಡದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಯು (predicate nominative). ('I (am) a student of Kannada.' Note that there is no direct Kannada equivalent for the verb 'to be' as a copula [linking verb], because Kannada is a zero-copula language, although the sentence may be alternatively written 'ನಾನು ಕನ್ನಡದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ(ಯನ್ನು) ಆಗಿದ್ಧೇನೆ.' literally meaning 'I am/exist having become a student of Kannada.'
Subject (ಕರ್ತೃ)[edit]
In Kannada, the subject is declined to the nominative case.[1] While the subject almost always performs the action in Kannada (use of the passive voice is highly rare), the subject may actually be the patient.
In a sentence with a subject, verb, and object, if the subject has already been made clear or is known from context, the subject may be omitted,[1] with the predicate standing alone to make the sentence.
Example: ಮನೆಗೆ ಹೋಗುವೆನು. ('I will go home.' Here, we can omit the subject 'ನಾನು', meaning 'I' because it is clear by the termination of the verb (a first-person singular termination, the same person and number of 'I') that the subject is 'I'.
Example: ವಿನಯನು ಇವತ್ತು ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಮನೆಗೆ ಬಂದನು. ('Vinay did not go to school today. {Vinay/he} came home.' In the second sentence, the subject 'Vinay' is omitted because it is clear from the previous sentence that the subject is 'Vinay'.)
Verb (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದ)[edit]
In Kannada, there cannot be more than one finite, or conjugated, verb in the sentence.[4] For example, the sentence 'I went to school and came home.' cannot be literally translated into Kannada. The Kannada equivalent of that sentence would be 'Having gone to school, I came home.' In Kannada, adverbial participles must be used.
Example: ನಾನು ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಮನೆಗೆ ಬಂದೆನು. ('I, having gone to school, came home.' / 'I went to school and came home.')
Example: ನಾನು ಓಡಿ ಆಡುವೆನು. ('I, having run, will play.' / 'I will run and play.' Note that if the intention is to say that the two actions will happen simultaneously ('I will play as I run.') then the sentence would be written 'ನಾನು ಓಡುತ್ತ ಆಡುವೆನು.')
Object (ಕರ್ಮ)[edit]
Dative construction (ಸಂಪ್ರದಾನಪದ ಕಾರ್ತೃವಾಗಿರುವ ವಾಕ್ಯ)[edit]
In Kannada, the dative construction is used often.[4] The dative construction occurs when the semantic subject is in the dative case and semantic direct object is in the nominative case. For example, in Kannada, one does not say 'I feel cold'; rather, one says the equivalent of 'cold is happening to me' ('ನನಗೆ ಚಳಿಯು ಆಗುತ್ತ ಇದೆ'). Similarly, one says 'dinner is wanted to me' ('ನನಗೆ ಉಟವು ಬೇಕು' or 'ನನಗೆ ಊಟವು ಬೇಕಾಗಿದೆ'; the latter literally is broken apart 'ನನಗೆ ಊಟವು ಬೇಕಾಗಿ ಇದೆ', literally meaning 'to me, dinner has become wanted/needed').
Yet another example is the use with 'ಇಷ್ಟ'. For example, one says 'ನನಗೆ ಸೇಬುಗಳು ಇಷ್ಟ ಆಗುತ್ತವೆ' (idiomatically--'I like apples'; literally--'to me, apples become pleasure').
Dative constructions are used to make the equivalent of English sensory linking verbs and with many modal auxiliary verbs.[4] For example, 'I see him' is translated as 'he causes me to see (him)', with 'me' in the dative case.
Interrogation (ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸುವುದು)[edit]
Negation (ನಿಷೇಧ)[edit]
Negative words (ನಿಷೇಧಾರ್ಥಕ ಪದಗಳು)[edit]
Kannada does not have any semantically negative words such as 'never', 'no one', and 'nothing'. These words are expressed by negating the verb with the positive equivalent of the negative word. For example, in Kannada, one cannot say 'students never go to school on Sundays'; one must say the equivalent of 'students do not go to school on Sundays ever' ('ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳು ಯಾವಾಗಾದರೂ ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯಕ್ಕೆ ಭಾನವಾರಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೋಗುವದಿಲ್ಲ'). Similarly, for 'no one goes to school on Sundays', one says 'anyone does not go to school on Sundays' ('ಯರೂ ವಿದ್ಯಲಯಕ್ಕೆ ಭಾನವಾರಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೋಗುವದಿಲ್ಲ').
Example: 'ಎಲ್ಲೂ ಆ ಘೋಷಣೆಯನ್ನು ಜನರು ಅಂಗೀಕರಿಸಲಿಕ್ಕಿಲ್ಲ.' ('Nowhere will the people accept that declaration.')
Negative finite verbs (ನಿಷೇಧಾರ್ಥಕ ಆಖ್ಯಾತಗಳು)[edit]
Although there is a negative 'mood' or form of the verb in Kannada, it is not used commonly anymore.[1] In addition, the negative form does not express time distinctions, so analytic negative forms are employed.
There is no negative adverb like 'not' in Kannada. Analytic verb negation is very peculiar, and it employs a form of 'ಇರು' ('to be, exist'), which is 'ಇಲ್ಲ'. However, negative Kannada verbs with 'ಇಲ್ಲ' do not have personal terminations—they do not indicate the person, gender, or number of the subject.[3]
To form a past negative verb with 'ಇಲ್ಲ', suffix 'ಇಲ್ಲ' to the infinitive form of the verb ending in 'ಅಲ್'. To form a present negative verb with 'ಇಲ್ಲ', suffix 'ಇಲ್ಲ' to the verbal noun of the verb. To form a future negative verb, either use the present-tense negative form of the verb with 'ಇಲ್ಲ' or suffix 'ಇಲ್ಲ' to the infinitive form of the verb ending in 'ಅಲಿಕ್ಕೆ'.[3]
Aspect is expressed by 'ಇಲ್ಲ' in the normal way—by using a negative form of 'ಇರು' with an adverbial participle. For example, 'I will not have been being hit' is 'ಹೊಡಿಯಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತ ಇದ್ದು ಇರಲಿಕ್ಕಿಲ್ಲ'.
Example: 'ಹೋಗುತ್ತ ಇರುವದಿಲ್ಲ.' ('I am not going.')
Example: 'ಹೋಗಿ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ.' ('I had not gone.')
However, in the present tense, one can directly use 'ಇಲ್ಲ' after the participle to express aspect.[4]
Example: 'ಹೋಗುತ್ತ ಇಲ್ಲ.' ('I am not going.')
Example: 'ಹೋಗಿ ಇಲ್ಲ.' ('I have not gone.')
Negation of adverbial participles (ಕ್ರಿಯಾನ್ಯೂನಗಳ ನಿಷೇಧ)[edit]
Adverbial participles have a negative form, created by suffix 'ಅದೆ' to the crude form of the verb. This form is tenseless, and is best translated as 'without ___ing'. For example 'ನೋಡಿ ಹೋದೆನು' means 'I went having seen (it)', 'ನೋಡುತ್ತ ಹೋದೆನು' means 'seeing (it), I went' or 'I went seeing (it)', and 'ನೋಡದೆ ಹೋದೆನು' means 'I went not seeing (it)', "I went not having seen (it)', or 'I went without seeing (it)'.[4]
However, 'ಇಲ್ಲ', derived from 'ಇರು' has an adverbial participle form--'ಇಲ್ಲದೆ'--and this can be used to keep tense when the adverbial participle must be negated. For example, one can say 'ನೋಡಿ ಇಲ್ಲದೆ' to definitively mean 'not having seen, and 'ನೋಡುತ್ತ ಇಲ್ಲದೆ' to definitively mean 'not seeing'. ---
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Hodson, Thomas. An Elementary Grammar of the Kannada Language. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1979. Print.
- ^ Andronov, Mikhail Sergeevich. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003. Print.
- ^ a b c Ziegler, F. A Practical Key to the Kannada Language. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1984. Print.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Schiffman, Harold F. A Reference Grammar of Spoken Kannada. Seattle: U of Washington, 1983. Print.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Kittel, Ferdinand. A Grammar of the Kannaḍa Language in English: Comprising the Three Dialects of the Language (ancient, Mediæval and Modern). Mangalore: Basel Mission Book and Tract Depository, 1903. Print.
- ^ a b McKerrel, John. Grammar of the Carnataca Language. Madras: College, 1820. Print.
- ^ a b c Spencer, Harold, and W. Perston. A Kanarese Grammar: With Graduated Exercises. Mysore: Printed at the Wesley, 1950. Print.


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I loved this salad for Thanksgiving dinner because it was not too sweet, it was beautiful and light. I gave it 3 forks because I did alter it to be more of a fruit salad: one English cucumber, 4 pears, one cup of pomegranite seeds and left the one large fennel bulb. I followed the vinaigrette recipe and several guests asked for the recipe. A big hit! I will definitely make for Christmas dinner.flag if inappropriate
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Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
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The research appears in the latest Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Hunt and Tufts University School of Medicine researchers Ana Soto and Carlos Sonnenscheinall pioneers in the effects of BPAco-designed the study with Catherine VandeVoort at the University of California at Davis, where the study was performed.
The Tufts researchers compared the structure of newborn mammary glands from BPA-exposed and unexposed female rhesus macaques. Pregnant monkeys were fed a piece of fruit containing a small amount of BPA each day during the gestational period corresponding to the human third trimester of pregnancy, resulting in blood levels of BPA comparable to those of many Americans today.
The researchers found that, at birth, the density of mammary buds was significantly increased in BPA-exposed monkeys, and the overall development of the mammary gland was more advanced compared to unexposed monkeys. Previous studies in the Soto and Sonnenschein laboratories have shown that exposing rodents to tiny amounts of BPA can alter mammary gland development, leading to pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions when the animals exposed in utero reach adult age.
The researchers say the primate research make
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Most of that increase is due to about 5 companies charging a premium for content -- and packaging channels that no one wants with the 1 channel viewers do want. [That is why a la carte channels will just not work. And it tops out with ABC/ESPN/Disney corp charging $6 per subscriber for ESPN - and the cableco has to carry all 7 ESPN channels.]. But not all of it!
"According to the latest annual survey by Leichtman Research Group, 83% of U.S. households subscribe to cable, down from 87% in 2010." [Yahoo]
It won't be Netflix or VZ's new mobile go90 video service that kills TV. It will be 2 things: (1) Millennials can't afford it or don't find value in traditional pay TV; and (2) TV ad spending is declining at a rate of 3% pr year, according to WP.
Why do you see the same ads ad nauseum on TV? Fewer advertisers spending fewer bucks on ads. That model can't last for long. The content providers are used to making money on cable carriage fees as well as on ad revenue. These stodgy companies are slow to change - and adopt to what is happening in the marketplace. They are slower learners than the music industry who got Napster-ed; the movie industry that made claims that piracy was killing them (not that they were making crappy movies not worthy of the substantial movie date bill); and the newspaper industry. Who will TV blame for this one?
The flat disposable income of two-thirds of US consumers makes me worry. The US of A is built on a service economy that is kept spinning by consumer spending - even if that consumer spending is credit card, student loans and other types of debt.
But the woes of TV have more to do with the shift in ad spending by companies from TV to the Internet. Notice that even YouTube has a bunch of ads that look an awful lot like TV ads. Mobile video consumption is rising. All of that will have an effect on the current pay-TV ecosystem. Think about all the telcos that spent millions to get into the TV game around 2004.
One last thought from this article: "In a short time, more people will stream video online each day than will watch scheduled programs on traditional TV, according to a new study from Ericsson, the Swedish communications company."]]>
AT&T gets a $100M fine for selling unlimited accounts that were impaired for big users. The FCC had to fine them because the FTC did NOT do its job. And then ISPs are bewildered by that? How? It is false advertising. It is total BS. What it really is: Big ISP wondering how their money didn't oil the gears.
Forbes pundit, Fred Campbell, writes a lot about the overstepping of the FCC. Does he notice the lack of effort at the other F-agencies (FTA, FDA, FAA)? Or that there is a huge transition going on that isn't just about the technology - copper or fiber or spectrum, it is about migrating many moving parts - LNP, E-911, broadband, voice, et al - and thousands of players to the new platform. Also, the telcos are sloughing off copper for a number of reasons - unions, pensions, competitors - none of which has to do with next gen networks or tech.
The FCC's main job is to protect Consumers. Have you seen the number of outages including on E-911 systems lately? How about the 2,000 consumers who complained to the regulators about slow Internet, high prices, and data caps from top ISPs? That is why the Net Neutrality laws are being used as a hammer. From a business aspect, you may not like the uncertainty of it, but from a user angle it is about freaking time.
Want to get rid of the uncertainty? Then (a) stop lying in ads about unlimited; (b) build the network you keep promising; (c) put all that spectrum you are hording into play; (d) take care of your customers and deliver on promises. It is that simple.
Politco has a report on the RUS department's failure (?) at administering the BIP broadband stimulus fund of $3.5 billion. More than 40 BIP projects never got started - out of 255 projects funded.
"A POLITICO investigation has found that roughly half of the nearly 300 projects RUS approved as part of the 2009 Recovery Act have not yet drawn down the full amounts they were awarded. All RUS-funded infrastructure projects were supposed to have completed construction by the end of June," the report reads.
" As stimulus-funded networks were built, the RUS was not tracking the number of locations reached or the number of customers who had signed up for service, the GAO noted." [telecompetitor]
Both the Telecompetitor article and the Politico report are good reads. Did they do poor management? Absolutely. One reason: Politics. Failures at both RUS and NTIA were kept quiet for political reasons. Plus those who won awards -- picked by a volunteer collection of people - - may not have been in a position to carry out the project or even the reporting. Florida's NRBA and its management crew had lots of screw ups and failures along the way. It is the government trough.
In the wake of USF Reform and the CAF Trials, 15 Small Telcos Could Lose USF Support: FCC Analysis Shows 100% Competitive Overlap. And 11 more may be voted off the island by you.]]>
I look at our space and wonder what will happen.
VZ is rumored to be selling Terremark and its PBX business. It needs cash. You can say it is looking core, but does it want to be like Sprint?
Tom Goodwin, an executive at Havas Media, whose essay on March 3 on Techcrunch.com began: "Uber, the world's largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world's most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world's largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening."
This headline from Morgan Stanley is a joke: Capital Creates More Commerce. If you meant, higher wages, better jobs create more commerce I would agree. Our economy is based on consumer spending and the Internet. The average wages have been stagnant or declining in the last 10 years. So how does the consumer spending increase - or even sustain?
More and more people are not W-2 employees, but 1099 self-employed - also called freelancers, contractors, even mistakenly entrepreneurs. 1099 means covering your own office, equipment, benefits, insurance, taxes and retirement. Good luck with that long term.
"Suddenlink is the 7th largest U.S. cable MSO with 1.5 million residential and 90,000 business customers across several states including Texas, West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas and Arizona." [telecomp]
"Altice is a multinational cable and telecommunications company with operations across the globe, including Europe, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. This is their first foray into the U.S. market."
I get why Altice would want to enter the US market (same reason AT&T has bought its way into the LATAM market) - growth requires expansion. The pie is not growing. The pie is being split by more and more players. When the pie can't grow, the top execs want to cash out. See TWC, tw telecom and apparently Bright House as examples.
The largest corporations keep hording cash and buying companies. They get bigger. Bigger is never better. Ever. Not one case of it.
This isn't about the 1%. The 99% that spin the economy every day are getting jailed (where private corporations are taking tax dollars to jail them - but have a quota so police and courts have to fill them).
The education is broken. Why do we have a federal department of education? College loans are drowning our kids, while colleges expand using that loan money. Again getting bigger not better.
Robots are automating jobs out of existence. What then?
We have the same issues as we did during the run of West Wing from 1999-2006: education, homelessness, war, huge defense budget, deficit spending - but now we have 3 larger problems:
We aren't taking care of our veterans that we continually send off to combat. We can't grow our economy fast enough to get out of this financial mess that is a bubble. And we have a new housing crisis.
The new housing crisis is that no new affordable housing is being built. Twenty-somethings and even thirty-somethings can't get a mortgage due to student loan and credit card debt (and stringent mortgage guidelines). Rents are sky-rocketing. So where will workers - teachers, firemen, janitors - live?
"The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation." - James Freeman Clarke
Technology is not going to fix any of these problems. In fact, you could say that tech has exacerbated a couple of these problems.
Not so much a rant as a can you believe this??
I was going to link to citations for all of these issues, but just Google it.]]>
There has been a backlash on workers and unions in America over the last 7-10 years. People don't realize that the unions helped create the middle class as well as passed quite a few strong labor laws that were pro-employee.
We see it with the indirect channel. More and more companies want a sales force that they only have to pay for performance -- and even then not pay as promised all the time.
We are slowly moving to a society of self-employed freelancers, many of whom are ill equipped to run that business or to make a living wage.
The decline of the middle class, stagnate wages, declining buying power -- these factors will directly affect the Fortune 5000. Why do you think every company is looking abroad or at M&A? There isn't much organic growth left. The pie isn't getting bigger; it is flat or shrinking. And we live in a consumption-service economy. Take a look at any major street in any city in America: it is all service businesses: dry cleaners, take-out food, Dollar stores, groceries, pizza.
The income inequality is at its worst. Congress is passing a tax break for the top 0.2%! Who will pay the taxes as wages decline?
There is constant grumbling about hand-outs and entitlements. Social Security, pensions, and unemployment are not handouts. Workers paid for those benefits. Want to talk about hand-outs how about the benefits that Congressmen receive including federal healthcare and retirement. Or how about all the industries subsidized by the federal government like Big Pharma, Big Agra, telecom, defense, airlines, finance, manufacturing -- I am having a problem thinking of a business sector that has not received a bailout, tariff protections, federal monies, or, in the case of defense, federal salesmen selling their product and paying for it with tax dollars. So who gets the handouts and entitlements?
And our biggest corporations - VZ, BoA, GE - don't pay taxes. The media has done a fine job of bamboozling Americans. The propaganda has turned American against American, when we should be united against the inequalities we face.
Want to see some crazy stats about Baltimore? Go to the Wash Post's Christopher Ingraham twitter account. Or just this one tweet for a chart.
Meanwhile, we spend an inordinate amount of time on Ebola outbreaks, gay marriage and other nonsense that just spins us up and keeps us from focusing on real problems in America. (Even science is under attack.)
Why So Many Americans Feel So Powerless]]>
On blogging, Wilson remarks that it helps him articulate what he is thinking (at 48 min). He also later talks about how many people worry if they will end up in his blog
At 19 minutes Wilson speaks about NYC startups. Doubleclick was the first big NYC startup. Now there are more startups in NYC. Today, people realize that not being in Silicon Valley doesn't mean that you can't do a startup (or find VC money).
At 30 minutes, he is discusses mesh networks. In Portugal, buses are installing access points by Veniam that are creating a mesh wi-fi network for the town. Wilson invested in Veniam. It was mentioned in a TED talk.
"You have to have the Hustle."
Wilson comments on building a great product. He mentions tumblr at 24 minutes as an example of a company focused on delivering a great product. Wilson believes in the value of having a really great product! Engineering and product teams are a requirement for a sustainable company. Importance of a Product team should not be overlooked.
Learn more about the internet of moving things here.
MP3 download.]]>
The other dockets at the F Agency are still embattled, including VoIP inter-carrier compensation, special access circuits, Open Internet / Net Neutrality, and the mergers (Comcast-TWC and ATT-DTV).
I haven't jumped on the Title II bandwagon, because the devil is in the details (and that proposal is like 300+ unreleased pages!)
I will say this about Title II: despite voice being regulated we still have call completion issues in rural America; we still have dropped calls (VoIP and cell); and we still have too many amateurs delivering voice services (causing some of these problems). The TDM-to-IP transition is in mid-stream but without any real oversight or structure in place. VoIP inter-connection is still a problem. It would be nice to have HD and Fax work any where due to all VoIP lines being as connected as TDM lines are.
Calling Title II regulation Obamacare for the Internet is just plain spin for TV time by a bunch of old white men who can't turn on their computers themselves and still think of the Internet as a bunch of tubes. (I am very tired of politicians - all of them.)
FCC Chair Wheeler's "strategy of reclassifying the service providers stems from a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington last year that voided FCC open-Internet rules. Judges said the agency improperly treated Verizon Communications Inc. as if it were a utility -- something the FCC couldn't do because of its 2002 ruling." [source]
None of this would have come to pass if Comcast and Verizon hadn't played games with Netflix. These same 2
idiots ISPs are the only 2 to sue the FCC over Open Internet rules. They should have been happy with the way it was, but greed.
In addition, I think the FCC gave cable enough prizes this year: by changing the definition of broadband to 25 Mbps x 3 Mbps they essential called ADSL dial-up. With the sale of more Verizon wireline assets to Frontier, cable will win some more. Isn't that enough for the Duopoly member with an almost monopoly on residential broadband in America and an increasing hold on small business Internet and voice services?? The Comcast deal for TWC with Charter should NOT go through. There is no benefit or upside to the consumers for this to happen. None. And that is the sole mandate of any F agency: protect the
sheople consumers. The FCC lacks follow up AND enforcement of merger conditions. So why approve a merger that will need a lot of conditions -- for a company clearly against Open Internet????
The Big 3 - AT&T, VZ and Comcast - are all set to file lawsuits after this order passes. I like how "Michael Powell, who as Republican FCC chairman led the agency to its 2002 decision," weighs in as president of the NCTA for his decision in 2002. How did he get to be FCC Chair again? Oh, right, he worked for Rumsfeld and his daddy. That's qualified.
It seems FCC Commish Clayburn is looking for the spotlight and to add drama by asking for lighter conditions now. Ah, politics. It makes for crappy regulation. But maybe it is more about the next job offer, as Clayburn seems to be doing the delay that the GOP commissioners were seeking. Why does it always go along party lines at this F Agency?
This is a decent read: Title II Proposal Brings Certainty - and Questions.
In 2002 till 2006, the FCC - usually twisted by the courts - made a number of rulings that set the current Duopoly up for riches. I think the exchange for that was supposed to be broadband for all in the US. To at least keep pace with Moldova. Instead, they pocketed the rate increases, played games with OTT content providers and VoIP providers daily, made deals with each other not to compete and lobbied up the ass in place of actually making good on their promises. They not only deserve Title II; they all deserve eminent domain of their networks.
Governments take over houses because a new plan concept will bring more taxes. Why is this any different?
This is also why the big merger should be denied -- they break their promises.
"With broadband defined as a Title I "information service" as it is today, the FCC lacks the legal language and authority to punish carriers for things like super-cookies" from VZW, write VB. In what world do we pay companies to spy on us? Oh, right, sorry.
It would be nice if the FTC has some cajoles, but they don't, so it is up to the FCC do rein things in.
I hear this from the old angry white men on TV: How much do you love America that you consistently play with the one resource that makes America competitive? The Internet is what is spinning our economy. It is what provides many people jobs. And yet the top ISPs won't provide a dumb pipe equivalent to Moldova to Americans?]]>
The price of crude oil is $45 per barrel today -- as Saudi Arabia enters the day with a new after the death of King Abdullah yesterday. Yemen's government collapsed this week. Europe is trying to avert another financial crisis. It's a little bit of turmoil (again) globally.
Meanwhile, in the online travel race with Priceline (which bought Kayak last year), Expedia buys Travelocity from Sabre Holdings for $280 million.
Founded in 2005, Box went public today. As NYT explains, "Box can focus on a more pressing issue: standing out in an industry that has quickly filled with competition, particularly from much bigger rivals like Google and Microsoft."
The online data storage industry is as crowded as the Hosted VoIP sector. Consolidation is happening in each sector, but not nearly enough. Why more is needed? Too many players with too few customers and little branding. Remind you of the Hosted VoIP sector too?
Evolve IP, a Broadsoft based cloud services company, bought an MSP, Webcore Technologies. It adds management experience, customers and some services and skills that Evolve didn't have.
If you are looking for a PSTN conference bridge for Office 365, take a look at PlumUC's latest move.
Going to be in Miami Beach next week for ITEXPO? Let's grab coffee or if you are around on Tuesday, come to dinner.]]>
Hackers had a field day with Sony, Target, Home Depot, iCloud (and celebrity photos) and 757 other organizations. [See VZ data breach report here.] Hackers had a field day with millions upon millions of passwords, emails and credit card numbers - over 83 million records. No one takes security seriously in the US - until after the hack happens to you (and you bear the cost of the breach, which for some companies is in the neighborhood of a billion dollars.)
Then there was Ed Snowden and the other whistleblowers with the revelations that portions of our government are indeed Big Brother - watching and reading everything like the Machine in Person of Interest. The US has lost a lot of business due to these revelations. Cisco lost business. Microsoft lost business (and is in a fight for its European life with the US government over email privacy. Our allies look at us differently. I don't blame Snowden for this; I blame elements of our government with a win at all costs mentality that is just scorched earth policy when it comes to light --- and it always comes to light. (see AT&T Room 641A). It took some of the wind out of the sails of quite a few cloud providers.
What bothers me most: the lack of surprise (and outrage) from the general public. Blows my mind.
In 2015, Security should be taken more seriously, but it won't. Despite VoIP providers starting to talk about security, like here. We will see more than just lost or stolen laptops, thumb-drives and smartphones in the healthcare industry in 2015. There will be a huge HIPAA/HITECH mishap that will ripple the sector.
Second big topic was the M&A. There were very big takeovers - L3-twt, ATT-DTV, Comcast-TWC and so many smaller ones like Vonage-Telesphere (and others that are on Ramblings.)
The one that shocked me was Cbeyond-Birch. It just doesn't make that much sense to me. It was as weird as Burger King and Tim Hortons.
The Windstream REIT maneuver is still in the works but until I see the details I have no idea what that will look like. It was a surprise, but if you think about it, almost everything that happens in telecom transactions is about cutting costs. This is just a tax shelter play. It is never about building something new or real synergy. It is always about cutting - people, costs, knowledge, customer service -- cutting everything to eke out a few pennies more for the Street, the bankers, the makers of nothing. None of this makes anything better at all. You can't talk to a business owner who thinks telecom is great. They think their gadgets are awesome, but that has nothing to do with telecom. Telecom, Airlines and Banks - no one WANTS to deal with them, but you HAVE to.
In 2015, I hope the top topic is Wearables (aka IoT, the Internet of Things). It would be great if wearables to a huge leap forward, but I really think that the topic of 2015 will be the economy and/or job loss.
"Big changes are coming to the labor market that people and governments aren't prepared for, Bill Gates believes. We are automating everything - even jobs out of existence. I've seen the stats and our economy looks like it is recovery until you peel back and see that most Americans are not seeing the recovery. Rents are going up; food prices are up; gas is unbelievably low; wages are stagnant; new home sales are down. In a service based economy - a consumer driven economy like ours - how does the economic wheel keep spinning if the consumers can't aren't doing well?
So I think the topic in 2015 will be the slowing economy and its effect on everything - like retail, restaurants, gadgets and even telecom spend.
Carriers hate to write down revenue, but customers want to reduce their spend each and every year. So how do you grow the revenue pie when revenue is declining?
I didn't mean to get all Debbie Downer on you in this post. It's just as I reflect -- and I see all of these crazy factors all piling up -- I wonder if (1) am I the only one who sees all this? or (2) am I the only one with a gloomy outlook?
One other big topic that will see light again in 2015 is the Open internet / Net Neutrality docket at the FCC. It was a noisy topic in 2014 especially for Netflix, Verizon and Comcast, but it is far from settled. The FCC pushed the decision out to 2015. Yet when the decision becomes an order, it will result in lawsuits. It is inevitable. So look for resolution in 2016.
Happy New Year!]]>
Voice over IP is the aftermath of consumers moving from copper to FiOS or cable modem or even cell phone over the last ten years. Where it has been easiest to deliver high speed broadband, the transformation is largely happening. However, there are too many pockets of America where high speed broadband isn't available; where technology like DSL can't deliver packets due to distance limitations; where fixed wireless can't see.
Without broadband everywhere, the IP transformation can't happen. It creates a digital divide between those with GigaBroadband and those without. Without broadband, working at home is not really possible. Without broadband, many freelance careers are not possible. So the divide becomes not only about having broadband, but having the opportunities that high speed Internet Access fuels.
I'm not talking about entertainment with Xbox of Netflix. How do you have educational parity without broadband? In urban areas, many students have migrated to tablets in place of textbooks. Without broadband, there is no way to get your homework done!
And where the IP Transformation is happening, there are ripple effects. People consume exabytes of data, especially video. These streams - video and VoIP - are real-time and have to be delivered with limited latency and jitter on networks designed for data packets - like email and websites. So the networks have to be monitored and re-configured and upgraded - even backhaul.
Other ripple effects are economic. The copper plant and its union workers become a burden on the LEC. The same techs that work on TDM are not always cross-trained for IP and fiber plant. The LECs are watching a steady decline of revenue from the copper plant; revenues which have fueled the companies for decades.
There has been a call for Broadband to be a Utility by Congress. Meanwhile, the telco groups like TIA and NCTA clamor for the status quo - even as that status quo shifts from under the members of these groups. (Still others are trying to get laws passed so governments can't build fiber networks, even in communities that the carriers will never invest.)
Regardless, the carriers have to get on the program that IP networks are the future and that broadband is an economic necessity for every community, every taxpayer. The Internet Economy is what is floating the US. Any attack on it - whether Net Neutrality, slow build outs, or high prices - will have a ripple effect on this country and its economy. I just wish they all acted like they knew that (and were working in the best interests).]]>
"The world craves growth. The developing world needs growth to pull people out of poverty. The developed world needs growth to tackle mounting unemployment and large government deficits."
"With a growing population seeking a better lifestyle to be delivered from a planet with finite resources, is business equipped to deliver? What customers, suppliers, employees, governments and society expect from business is changing."
"'Good' growth' is in everyone's interest and the new measure of success. But how do you work out what 'good' looks like?" PwC tries to demonstrate that in the project.
"But is the growth we're pursuing doing more harm than good? Rapid booms are followed by shattering busts. Pollution is escalating. Precious resources are being drained away....Looking at growth from a total impact perspective means decisions are made with more holistic information and 'good' growth becomes easier to spot."
We are already seeing discussions about bad corporations and sustainability - good growth. "Is growth good when it eats up resources and the community pays a bigger price (e.g. through adverse impacts on health) than the financial gain it generates?
"Good growth benefits everyone - consumers, communities, the economy and shareholders alike." That's the Ideal anyway. With runaway greed, this is unlikely to happen up but in pockets.
The impact of good growth has a few perks - one of which is talent retention. People want to work for something bigger than corporate greed. (What Jim Collins called the BHAG and Simon Sinek says is Why.)
PwC even takes a look at 5 Mega Trends, including demographic shifts, urbanization and climate change! In fact, the "changing demographic trends are creating one of the biggest challenges for CEOs today: finding and securing the workforce of tomorrow." Which brings us back to "Good Growth", BHAG, the Why - or corporate culture.
Millenials aren't job hopping. That makes talent acquisition a challenge for larger corporations. In a Forbes article, "Business in general has a branding problem. Most students still think of commerce as synonymous with Wall Street greed and Enron like fiascos. ... Millennials care about more than just taking home a paycheck. They care about working at an organization which makes an impact, and sees them as more than cogs in the greater machine."
Interesting stuff to think about as we near the 4Q 2014.]]>
When you look at the INC5000 for revenue numbers for many hosted players, none are clocking the ball out of the park, despite years of trying.
RingCentral may be demonstrating growth but that growth is being purchased at a loss. What happens when the cost of the money for customer acquisition (growth) gets too expensive?
Wall Street rewards growth. 8x8 is experiencing a hangover from the Street because it isn't growing fast enough. Does that even make sense?
Wall Street is a cancer. It's why the PE group wanted to take Alteva private. It's why Dell went private.
Quote from a client of mine: "It causes greedy people to make bad decisions based on current valuation inflation and not long term smart business decisions, that are good for the customer, company, and staff. If the decisions are not based on a win-win-win strategy, they will end up not being good for the anyone long term."
It is painful to morph a company from a telco to a cloud services business. The revenues (and ARPU) are lower; there are enormous CAPEX; sales cycles are longer. There are not many spots in the business that the public markets would like. Plus the Street doesn't understand a whit of what any of these companies do. (Get on a BSFT earnings call and try to figure out if any analysts or reporters know what BSFT does or sells. HA!).
Cloud players can go buy growth for a limited amount of time or they can grow slowly but profitably. It is very tricky to do both. Scaling a cloud business isn't the same as scaling a telco. The talent is hard to find and expensive to hire. The processes are rarely automated. There are a number of human touch points that only allow for a finite number of orders to be processed per day -- and a very finite number of customers that can be turned up each day.
Better to do this in a private financial blanket where no one sees how the sausage is really made.
It's funny: all the research firms talk about the growth of UC and where the market will be in 5 years revenue-wise, but they don't talk about the margins or that most of this revenue is just arbitrage from landlines and PBX's. It's just a shift in buying from one group to the next. The total spend on voice-data-Internet has probably increased 2-3% per year (mainly due to cellular I would bet), but it is a shift in who gets the money. Cablecos get more than they did 10 years ago, when they didn't even have voice or a business division. Telcos are getting money that VARs and MSPs used to get for collocation and VPS. Hosted UC players are getting money that Inter-connects and telcos used to get. (Telcos are still the biggest sales partners for companies like Avaya.) All and all though, the wallet just shifted and grew a little bit. There are winners and losers. And there will be more winners and losers and consolidation because customer acquisition is just too damn expensive.]]>
"In 1980, McKinsey & Company was commissioned by AT&T (whose Bell Labs had invented cellular telephony) to forecast cell phone penetration in the U.S. by 2000. The consultant's prediction, 900,000 subscribers, was less than 1% of the actual figure, 109 Million. Based on this legendary mistake, AT&T decided there was not much future to these toys. A decade later, to rejoin the cellular market, AT&T had to acquire McCaw Cellular for $12.6 Billion. By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution." (article via @trengriffin)
Innovation is a funny thing. In many cases, these meshed start-ups (like Uber, AirBnB) combine many elements that go beyond just replacing a previous service (like cabs, hotels). They enable anyone to leverage their assets (sofas, guest room, car) to make money, meet people, help out a stranger - all enabled by cellular, GPS, databases, a website and apps.
The car didn't replace the horse. The Blue Ocean of the car eclipsed the horse and the railroad.
Uber doesn't replace taxis, so much as it creates a separate sector. (I am seeing people replace their cars with Uber.) The same can be said cellalar data - it can't really replace wireline broadband, although there are those that use it this way.
Innovation today (I think) is being powered by economic stress. Etsy, eBay, eLance and other platforms allow people to turn hobbies or skills into extra income or even replacement income. All of this is driven by economic need. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The laws need to catch up to innovation, because AirBnB doesn't follow hotel regulations (neither does VRBO) and Uber & Lyft don't follow cab regulations (and probably not commercial insurance either).
Just some thoughts running through my head today.]]>
AT&T is adding cities in NC to its U-Verse with GigaPower. I wonder if this is a response to TWC buying DukeNet there.
Verizon Wireless looking to buy Dish Network's spectrum [Reuters]. It came out of the NY Post; the article is so vague that it doesn't even mention what spectrum. Chalk it up to #rumor by bankers.
21 charts about the US changes. I know these graphs are someone's representation / view / spin, but take it at face value that some observations are true, like we are a more diverse population and the population is getting older. To quote Tom Peters: start marketing to the diversity and the Boomers!
#14 - "The US economy has undergone a fundamental shift: it has moved from a more goods-focused economy to a service-based economy." I see that the Internet helps to spin our economy (or at least the market caps of a number of companies), so why is Congress, the courts and the two F agencies, letting any corporation muck with it?
#15 - "Speaking of productivity, the American worker just keeps getting better and better at boosting the economy, thanks largely to technology. American workers are creating more and more economic value, but they're not getting paid accordingly. Productivity has climbed steadily over the last decade, but compensation hasn't followed suit." I don't think anyone can argue that point, but I am certain someone will try.
#6 - We are more Politically Polarized than ever before. "A 2014 report from the Pew Research Center found that the two man political parties are drifting further from each other ideologically. Americans are far more likely to be consistently conservative or consistently liberal than they were 10 or 20 years ago." And we tend to only listen to people we agree with and ignore differing opinions, which means that this will only get worse.
"Largely because of our aging population, there's going to be a growing need for more healthcare workers in the US economy over the next 10 years....Home health aides and personal care aides, both of which are going to grow by around 50 percent, are also remarkably low-paid jobs, with median annual pay of around $20,000 each." In a consumer service based economy, when people can't buy stuff, the economic engine grinds to a halt. Henry Ford knew that.
#17 - "We're staying unemployed for an unusually, terribly long amount of time." The skills for jobs that pay well have changed - perhaps outpacing the unemployed. Plus many jobs have been automated out of the organization. (The new burger maker machine will even automate the low wage jobs at fast food. then what?)
This slide deck is about technology's influence on the workplace (which could be about BYOD and other stuff). What it said to me is that if you are selling cloud as a replacement for premise, you are wasting your time. Cloud is an improvement over premise. Get that straight right from the beginning, chum.]]>
No matter what ruling - McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission or USA v. Cindy Lee Westhoven - or what law or even when they are found breaking the law with unlawful intercepts and trampling the US Constitution (now a guideline I suppose), it's business as usual in the US. We are exporting Democracy and aid to the less fortunate, but no here at home!
But I digress. Back to Net Neutrality.
I have repeatedly said that our current economy is based on service and the Internet.
Jobs are created by small business not the Fortune 5000 or the Global 500.
When you put a toll road on the Internet where bigger companies can pay for better access, the age of the Internet and the dawning of the Age of Innovation are just about over.
Once again I say save the $359,299,000 and close the FCC. (If a former Monsanto policy VP is going to run the FDA, let's close that too. And the federal Dept. of Education is a waste of paper.)
For the moment I am beaten down by politics and DC and the voting public (for being so lazy), so I can't get riled up about NN. Yet VCs - yes the money men - like Fred Wilson clearly understand how tossing out Net Neutrality will have a far reaching impact as he explains in two blog posts - here and here.
"But that period of "permissionless innovation" is likely to come to an end soon if we all let it. The FCC has responded to a court ruling by proposing a convoluted set of rules that will allow fast lanes, slow lanes, and what's even worse, no lanes. The FCC's proposal will allow the telcos and cable companies that provide the last mile connection to your home or office to prioritize some bits over others. That's how they create the fast lane and the slow lane. It also allows discrimination in which they can decide not to allow your bits through at all, creating a "no lane"."
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I commented that maybe JCP customers don't use it. The key to any business is to know as much as you can about your customers. Isn't that really what the whole "Big Data" thing is all about?
The problem for JCP, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble and malls is that if you just stock stuff, you have to compete directly with Amazon. Let's face it: that is a losing proposition. Period.
I have taken stabs at what B&N should do. I think everyone mistakes Amazon for low price (and cries about it). It's CONVENIENCE!
Low price will kill you. You have to not only provide value and a customer experience, you have to market that. Free wi-fi - even McDonald's advertises it. Who would think someone would sit with a laptop at McD's while chowing on a Big Mac? But parents on an iPad while the kids play...well, yeah. And as Rich points out, bored kids mean less shopping time for the parents. Free wi-fi means they can watch movies and play games. I guess just teaching them to behave would be harder.
Notice that Target commercials showcase fashion and style. Does JCP? No. JCP should take a lesson or two from Target - go get some exclusive designers. Or hit a few design colleges to hold a contest - sign up the winner for a two year exclusive. It would be a cheap way to make noise and drive traffic.
The problem JCP has is similar to Sears - they were both catalog companies but did not transition to the web soon enough. When I was a kid, we would grab those Christmas catalogs - from Sears, JC Penney and Spiegel - the minute they arrived (in August) and start making lists. There is a way to still do that online IF they wanted to just remain a catalog company - and compete directly with Amazon. If you go that route, have some exclusive items and give loyalty points as reasons for people to shop with you. And by all means spend the money on a software platform like Amazon's that is dynamic, tracks every move, makes wishlists and allows for frictionless shopping.
K-Mart is advertising lay-away. They know a little about their customer base. The problem is that all too often, these stores want to break away from the current client base to get others. Well, it doesn't work that way. Own the tribe. Own the niche. Get every dollar you can from that tribe of customers. Know everything you can about that tribe, so you can add more value and sell more to them. It costs way more to go get new customers than it does to sell more to the customers you already have.
Now if I wanted new customers, I would open up a new brand. Re-do a couple of stores as a test with new brand, new colors, new message. Sears did it by making some stores outlets, and by buying Land's End. Luckily, Sears hasn't foisted a Kardashian Kollection or Jaclyn Smith store on us yet.
Best Buy made a smart move by putting kiosks up in airports and other places to see if it could get impulse buys from shoppers. Much cheaper than a store. Best Buy also opened mobile only stores. Niche selling is where it's at. Hat stores anyone? Just look at any mall, it is usually filled with a food court, kiosks (niche products), and niche stores. What is Finish Line or Frederick's of Hollywood but stores selling a narrow selection of product inside a vertical.
Brick-and-mortars and malls - as I have written before - have to start experimenting and have to start being a destination that provides both value and a customer experience - or good bye.
Malls used to have fashion shows, modeling try-outs, concerts (remember Tiffany?) and other exhibits that would drive in traffic. Why did that all stop?
When you look at our celebutard culture, how much would it cost Westfield to bring some reality star on a tour of its malls? I was at a Tampa Bay Fashion Week event Thursday and Kato Kaelin was a guest. (He is partnering with Rhonda Shear on a line of clothes called kato's Kouch Potato). So take advantage of the clock. At minute 16 or so, hire them for some traffic.]]>


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